Rice Bottling Company v. Humphreys

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case wherein the employer, Rice Bottling Company, has appealed from a decree awarding employee, Thurman Humphreys, Jr., compensation based upon a finding of forty percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole and medical expenses.

Employee was engaged as a helper on soft drink delivery trucks, when about July 5, 1962 in the process of pulling five of these soft drink cases up some steps in a buggy he felt a pain in the lower part of his back. Employee continued working though suffering pain and two days later told his foreman of the incident. On…